Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 232 292
Rank change year-on-year -65 +60 -77
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 513 535 879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.31% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.40% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 207 304 499
10th Percentile £44,000 £45,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,750 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -46 467 £75,000 +7.14% 221
London +38 275 £90,000 +20.00% 105
Work from Home +54 237 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -131 186 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -41 59 £75,000 -4.76% 31
South East -115 40 £57,500 -11.54% 47
North West -10 36 £83,750 +4.62% 16
Midlands -41 36 £63,076 -2.96% 19
West Midlands -17 26 £58,750 -9.62% 11
East of England -10 22 £60,100 -7.54% 21
Yorkshire -36 20 £63,076 +94.08% 13
South West -64 17 £62,500 -3.29% 12
Northern Ireland - 11 £75,000 - 1
East Midlands -52 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Scotland -39 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
North East -21 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2
Wales - 3 £69,501 - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 18 (3.51%) Confluence
2 11 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.58%) CMS
4 2 (0.39%) CICS
4 2 (0.39%) MTS
5 1 (0.19%) Drupal
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (6.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.58%) Trello
7 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (3.70%) Workfront
2 9 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.58%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Magento
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.26%) AWS
2 62 (12.09%) SaaS
3 53 (10.33%) Azure
4 33 (6.43%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.70%) Pulumi
7 17 (3.31%) GitHub
8 15 (2.92%) GCP
9 13 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.75%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.56%) H2O.ai
11 8 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.56%) PaaS
12 5 (0.97%) Asana
12 5 (0.97%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.78%) Collibra
13 4 (0.78%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.78%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.31%) Broadband
2 17 (3.31%) HTTP
3 8 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.56%) WAN
4 6 (1.17%) LAN
4 6 (1.17%) RTP
5 4 (0.78%) NGN
6 3 (0.58%) Multicast
6 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.58%) Wireless
7 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.19%) Firewall
8 1 (0.19%) MPLS
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.16%) Metadata
2 20 (3.90%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.90%) Power BI
2 20 (3.90%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.36%) Tableau
5 6 (1.17%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.17%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.39%) Big Data
7 2 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (4.87%) JIRA
2 19 (3.70%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.58%) ERwin
3 3 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Git
General
1 189 (36.84%) Finance
2 172 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 145 (28.27%) Marketing
4 92 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (14.23%) Banking
6 63 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (10.14%) Retail
8 48 (9.36%) Law
9 41 (7.99%) Legal
10 40 (7.80%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (5.85%) Financial Institution
13 28 (5.46%) Public Sector
14 27 (5.26%) Back Office
15 22 (4.29%) Manufacturing
16 17 (3.31%) Digital Economy
16 17 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (2.14%) Automotive
17 11 (2.14%) Italian Language
18 10 (1.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (26.90%) Product Manager
2 74 (14.42%) Lead
3 71 (13.84%) Senior
4 52 (10.14%) Product Owner
5 35 (6.82%) Senior Manager
6 30 (5.85%) Senior Product Manager
7 20 (3.90%) Developer
7 20 (3.90%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.51%) Development Engineer
8 18 (3.51%) Software Engineer
9 17 (3.31%) Consultant
9 17 (3.31%) Digital Product Manager
9 17 (3.31%) Software Development Engineer
10 14 (2.73%) Change Manager
10 14 (2.73%) Product Management Director
11 13 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (2.53%) Senior Development Engineer
11 13 (2.53%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 13 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (2.14%) Business Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.90%) REST
2 19 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.56%) Keras
3 8 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.56%) TensorFlow
3 8 (1.56%) YAML
4 4 (0.78%) .NET
5 3 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) HTML
6 2 (0.39%) Next.js
6 2 (0.39%) Spring
6 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.19%) EDI
7 1 (0.19%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.19%) PySpark
7 1 (0.19%) SOAP
7 1 (0.19%) XML
7 1 (0.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 132 (25.73%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.58%) Social Media
3 35 (6.82%) Marketing Technology
4 34 (6.63%) Over-the-Top Content
5 32 (6.24%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (6.04%) Onboarding
7 29 (5.65%) Management Information System
8 27 (5.26%) Cloud Native
9 18 (3.51%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.56%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.36%) Data Fabric
14 6 (1.17%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.17%) IoT
14 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.17%) Podcast
14 6 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.48%) Linux
2 19 (3.70%) Unix
3 6 (1.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (57.89%) Roadmaps
2 244 (47.56%) Agile
3 143 (27.88%) Product Roadmap
4 110 (21.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 109 (21.25%) Product Vision
6 107 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 99 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (19.30%) Product Strategy
8 97 (18.91%) AI
9 95 (18.52%) Decision-Making
10 94 (18.32%) Mentoring
11 82 (15.98%) User Stories
12 78 (15.20%) Analytics
13 74 (14.42%) User Experience
14 73 (14.23%) Customer Experience
15 65 (12.67%) Product Backlog
16 63 (12.28%) Coaching
17 62 (12.09%) Product Requirements
18 61 (11.89%) Business Development
19 58 (11.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.99%) Java
1 41 (7.99%) Python
2 25 (4.87%) JavaScript
2 25 (4.87%) SQL
3 20 (3.90%) Go
4 19 (3.70%) Bash
5 8 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.97%) Bicep
7 4 (0.78%) C#
8 2 (0.39%) COBOL
8 2 (0.39%) JCL
8 2 (0.39%) PHP
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.39%) R
9 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (17.93%) Degree
2 35 (6.82%) Master's Degree
3 28 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.73%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.17%) PMP
9 5 (0.97%) MBA
10 4 (0.78%) HNC
11 3 (0.58%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) CBAP
12 2 (0.39%) CCNA
12 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.68%) QA
2 13 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.75%) NCSC
6 8 (1.56%) NIST
7 7 (1.36%) GDPR
8 5 (0.97%) PMO
9 4 (0.78%) IFRS
9 4 (0.78%) SLA
10 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.58%) PERC
11 2 (0.39%) COREP
11 2 (0.39%) FINREP
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) GMP
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (5.85%) Terraform
2 23 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.70%) Ansible
3 19 (3.70%) Argo
3 19 (3.70%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 47 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.19%) Adobe
3 35 (6.82%) Google
4 13 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.75%) Oracle
6 8 (1.56%) Databricks
6 8 (1.56%) Dell
6 8 (1.56%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.36%) SAP
8 6 (1.17%) Foundry
9 4 (0.78%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.78%) YouTube
10 3 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.58%) Cisco
10 3 (0.58%) CQG
10 3 (0.58%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.58%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.58%) Reuters
10 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.58%) Trayport